The Book

Paul would write his thoughts down, each evening, in a battered blue hard cover note book. It was not the first, and extra sheets of writing were stuffed between the covers, taken from other books in other times and places. As books go it was not much to speak of, scruffy and untidy, pages stained [...]

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HAIR [A work in progress of tangled strands, this being the first]

When they first met, he had hair. Hair in all the normal places, regular brown hair with a few grey strands appearing. Eight years later he was hairless, utterly devoid of it, not even the slightest fluff, not in his armpits, no chest hair, not one eyelash remained on his face where a beard once [...]

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Lizard Words – a Composition

Lizard Words
A Composition
 
The invigilator handed out the examination papers and dangerously blank booklets, walked teacher-briskly to the front of the classroom and began reading the examination rules almost from memory in a voice bored and threateningly cold, loaded with moral guidance, deriving a powerfully sexual pleasure from the effect on her students of the indifferent, [...]

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Erin

(warning – may offend)
Erin danced around the room, feeling her responsibilities and the pressures of life dissolve into the promise of the coming holiday. A jasmine scent filled the room from the rambling creeper outside her open window.
For the first time in ages she felt happy. June exam results were still a month from being [...]

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